Monday, October 28, 2013

Goosenecks - San Juan River

Goosenecks State Park is located about 40 miles south of Natural Bridges National Monument near Mexican Hat, Utah.

The Goosenecks of the San Juan River are a series of tight loops - or "goosenecks" - made by the river as it flows towards the Colorado River. Geologists refer to these loops as entrenched or incised meanders. Here, the San Jan river flows for 6 miles yet only covers a distance of one mile. It makes a series of three sharp hairpin turns, resembling goosenecks. The canyon walls reveal the 300-million-year old rocks of the Pennsylvanian period.

The Goosenecks are 300 million years of art work at display. They might lose a lot of press to other river-cut formations in the US, such as Grand Canyon, but this off the beaten path geological formation will make you awe at nature's power.

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Friday, October 25, 2013

Monument Valley - Eye Of The Sun


Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world. Its 30,000 acres straddle the borders of Arizona and Utah and offer breathless scenery any time of the year and almost any time of the day and night. Though Monument Valley is one of the most photographed landmarks in the United States, its varied seasons and spectacular lighting provide ample opportunity to capture new and refreshing visions of the red desert sands, crimson mesas and sandstone towers which spread throughout the area.

Another spot, which you will see during a guided tour into Central Monument Valley is the 'Sun's Eye' (or 'Eye of the Sun') - another fine example of erosion within the Colorado Plateau. It's a cave type natural arch, which means that it has been eroded out of the "roof" of (in this case deChelly sandstone) a rock formation, and eventually collapsed, giving room to this "eye". You can't get close, as this is also a holy spot for Navajo (near Thunderbird Mesa).

Look at the dark vertical lines on the rock - this is called "Desert Varnish", and is a result of specific oxidation on the vertical rocks, when in contact with water and their mineral salts.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Monument Valley - The Untamed West

Monument Valley is a place where time stands still. Change comes slowly to this rugged land of pinnacles, mesas and buttes. And that's only fitting, given that it took eons of wind, rain and other forces to carve the magnificent spires, alcoves and monoliths that have come to symbolize the untamed West.

Some visitors might find the land too alien and wild, almost frightening and overpowering, but there is a strong magnetism to this mysterious, beautiful place. There are legends that the valley still holds secrets - Indian ruins never seen by white men and a silver mine hidden by the Navajos more than 100 years ago.

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Friday, October 18, 2013

Monument Valley - The Three Sisters

Monument Valley was established as the first Navajo Tribal Park by the Navajo Tribal Council on July 11, 1958. It encompasses 29,816 acres, and contains over 100 Anasazi Indian ruins. There are over 40 named "monuments" in the valley. Most of the natural monuments in Monument Valley are remnants of sandstone eroded by wind and water. Agathla Peak and some lesser summits are roots of ancient volcanoes.

The Three Sisters are believed by the Navajo to be three Holy People who have turned to stone. The south sister stands 600 ft/183 m; the middle sister is 325 ft/99 m; and the northernmost sister stands 575 ft/175 m. Their names are Faith, who is praying; Hope, who is gazing up at Faith; and Charity, looking like Mother Superior. That's right, Harry Goulding, who named many of the monuments in the valley thought that they looked like nuns.

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Sentinel Mesa Monument Valley

Monument Valley is part of the Navajo Nation reservation, a 640-mile drive from Los Angeles, 175 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz., about 25 miles north of the sleepy town of Kayenta. The valley's most famous mesas, buttes and spires stand within the boundaries of the tribal park.

Monument Valley's distinguishing geologic features are the large buttes and mesas that jut up from the valley floor. The valley's vivid red color comes from iron oxide exposed in the weathered siltstone. The darker, blue-gray rocks in the valley get their color from manganese oxide.

Sentinel Mesa is a prominent feature in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, on the Arizona / Utah state line (Sentinel Mesa is in Utah). It climbs to 6,417 feet (1,955.90 meters) above sea level.

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Friday, October 11, 2013

Monument Valley - East Mitten And Merrick Butte

Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border - What a beautiful place!!! It reminds me of cowboy movies and the old west.

Monument Valley is a part of the Colorado Plateau located within the territory of the Navajo Nation reservation. The most interesting part of the valley is called the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, or Tse�Bii�Ndzisgaii in Navajo language. It is equivalent to a national park. The vast size of the valley, vivid red colours and, most importantly, isolated sandstone towers of various heights and sizes comprise an overwhelming landscape of the Monument Valley � truly unique scenery that is hard to forget.

The Mitten buttes - here the East Mitten or Right Mitten butte - are named for their shape, which resembles mittens. The two Mittens form a triangle with Merrick's Butte (right).

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Friday, September 27, 2013

Utah's Iconic Monument Valley

Monument Valley, one of the most spectacular sights in the southwestern United States, is located in northeast Arizona although the entrance is actually in Utah.

Everyone is familiar with the signature rock formations of Monument Valley but when you spend time there, you will realize that there is so much more to see and experience. Monument Valley is not a State or National Park. It is a Navajo Tribal Park. Navajo families have lived in the valley for generations. Learning about the Navajo people is just as enjoyable as touring the monuments of the valley.

There is much to see along the Valley Drive, even if many of the views are of the same formations, just at different angles, as some of the narrower buttes look quite different from one side compared to the other. This part of Monument Valley is one of the most impressive large-scale landscapes anywhere in the Southwest, rivaling places like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite for the variety of scenes.

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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Magnificent Monument Valley

Monument Valley is one of the most iconic and enduring landmarks of the American "Wild West." Its isolated red mesas, buttes and sprawling, sandy desert has been photographed and filmed countless times.

Crimson mesas and surreal sandstone towers rise hundreds of feet into the air, some as tall as 1,000 feet. The dramatic natural and rich red hues dominate the entire region that spans the border between Arizona and Utah. Both the beauty and the sheer size of the valley provide majestic scenery that overwhelms the senses as the play of sunlight and shadows holds a person spellbound. Monument Valley Tribal Park is not as much a valley as a wide flat plateau, interrupted by crumbling formations that are the last remnants of the sandstone layers that once covered the entire region.

This image (looking south) is what one sees approaching Monument Valley from the north on Highway 163 in Utah after crossing the San Juan River (marking the northern border of the Navajo Reservation.)
The three formations are
- Left: "Castle Butte" (with other named formations immediately adjacent)
- The twin spires in the middle are "The King on his Throne"
- and the large formation on the right is "Brigham's Tomb" (also known as "Saddleback Butte") which marks "Monument Pass", the northern entrance to Monument Valley.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Comb Ridge Utah Near Mexican Hat

Just when you think you can't be surprised by another rock formation another one shows up right around the corner. In this land of sweeping mesas, massive buttes and towering rock sires, Comb Ridge is something else again.

Tilted at an angle of almost 20 degrees, Comb Ridge is an ancient rock formation tapered along the desert landscape of southeastern Utah. Basically it is a rock wall, or expressed more correctly, a monocline � a big step in the earth's surface. It stretches north-south for almost 80 miles from the Abajo Mountains north of Blanding, Utah, all the way to Laguna Creek east of Kayenta in Arizona. In 1976 it was designated a National Natural Landmark. It seems at its most impressive between Bluff and Blanding, roughly, with 191 and 95 cutting through it. When you are approaching it from the bottom end you feel the way an ant might feel when it approaches your garden wall.

In stunning colors, this wall rises above green Comb Wash down below. From the top end you approach an undulating edge till you see the road cuts through it and then dips to the bottom far below. The colors of this "indian blanket" design are absolutely stunning; natural rock art in psychedelic pastels: this is a very special sight. The first time you approach it you simply have to go WOW!!! and your jaw drops.

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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Antelope House Ruins Blending In

Canyon de Chelly National Monument on Navajo Nation land near Chinle, Arizona, is truly a Gem of the Southwest United States. The natural beauty is unsurpassed, with breathtaking sandstone walls, wild animals, and Navajo farms and flocks. A sense of history mingles with this beauty, with ruins and rock art that stretch far back into human history.

The Antelope House Ruin exists of ancient ruins set in a secretive alcove near the canyon floor. The entire complex is made up of two main building areas that border a central type plaza structure. The area was once inhabited by the Kayenta Anasazi Indians from about 1050 AD to 1270 AD. Researchers and archaeologists have determined that the complex once consisted of over 91 rooms and reached four stories in height. There were two or three large kivas and several smaller kivas. The walls were once plastered on all sides by the tribe members to protect the masonry. Today, some of the remaining walls boast decorative paintings and designs. There are paintings of antelope grazing on a nearby cliff which aids in giving the ruins its appropriate name.

The area is full of places to explore and venture. Some of the caves are open to the general public. Some local artists can be seen sitting on a rock painting the landscape or an antelope feeding off in the distance. Great Navajo art has been created from this location and is on display at many area studios.

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Sunday, September 08, 2013

Canyon De Chelly From Sliding House Overlook

There are ten named overlooks in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, either right beside the road or along short trails; seven of Canyon de Chelly along the South Rim Drive and the other three of Canyon del Muerto along the North Rim Drive.

Although broadly similar, each overlook offers somewhat different views, of distant ruins, rock formations and junctions with tributary canyons, so all are worth a visit. Apart from White House Ruins, the ancient sites along the north rim are larger and more intricate. A leisurely drive along both rims, stopping at all viewpoints, takes about four hours.

Reached by a side road, Sliding House Overlook is close to several ancient structures, most visibly Sliding House Ruin, a medium-sized site in a shady alcove, built on a sloping surface and giving the appearance of sliding downwards. The overlook is situated on a projecting section of the canyon rim edged by sheer cliffs on three sides, and so allows different views from each edge. Canyon de Chelly hereabouts is particularly steep-walled and spectacular.

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Thursday, September 05, 2013

Canyon De Chelly White House Ruins

Canyon de Chelly National Monument is an amazing place. Two beautiful narrow 1,000 feet deep canyons converge about three miles from the park headquarters. Canyon de Chelly runs east-west, and Canyon del Muerto runs northwest.

As you proceed up the canyons from the park headquarters the first set of ruins you encounter are called First Ruin and Junction Ruin. Both are fairly small. First Ruin had ten rooms and two kivas. Its sister site is called Junction Ruin and it is located on the north side of Canyon de Chelly, where Canyon del Muerto branches off. Thus the name, Junction Ruin. Junction Ruin had fifteen rooms and one kiva. Both of these cliff dwellings were developed during the period called Pueblo III.

Canyon de Chelly typifies the colorful Southwestern Indian country. Adding to this atmosphere are the present-day Navajo Indian homes that are scattered along the canyon floors.

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Monday, September 02, 2013

Canyon De Chelly From White House Ruins Trail

The White House Ruins Trail is one of the rare hikes in Canyon de Chelly where a Navajo guide is not required. The Trail is 1.5 miles each way - 1000 feet in vertical drop The trail - traversing many different layers of rocks.

The views are just amazing ... spectacular ... breathtaking ... awesome! The canyon bottom is beautiful and green. Cottonwood tree leaves shimmer in the sun and sheep wander about, herded by their energetic dogs, horses running free. The Silence, the Wind, the Peace, the Power, mountain goats and hawks, and the different colors and shapes of the rocks, all give a different perspective to the shear cliff walls and vegetation.

The feeling in the canyon is very different from what you see at the top. It is a great experience, and with little imagination one can really think to be transported in the old Far west in this natural wonder where indians ride their wild horses in these mountains.

Canyon De Chelly From White House Ruins Trail - Christine Till Fine Art Photography
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Canyon De Chelly - Spider Rock

Located entirely within the lands of the Navajo Nation, Canyon de Chelly gets it name from the Navajo word for canyon, Tséyiʼ. The canyon was long inhabited by members of the Anasazi and Navajo tribes, and is home to both well-preserved ruins and striking geological features.

One of the spectacular points along the rim trail is Spider Rock, twin sandstone spires with the tallest being over 800 feet high. Traditional Navajo believe the taller of the two spires is home to Spider Grandmother. Spider Rock is considered sacred to the Navajo and is associated with Spider Woman, who taught the Navajo how to weave on a loom which Spider Man told them how to make. Spider Woman also is the enforcer of obedience in children.

The sandstone pillar, which forks into two above the canyon floor, as if split by a mighty thunderclap, seems to be a magnet for wondrous weather, marked by lightning flashes and threatening clouds. Indeed, a Navajo origin story tells that a huge storm once passed through a gentle valley, tearing off the soil and grass and aspen trees. In the wake of the storm, tall pillars of rock stood on the valley floor, flanked by steep canyon walls of red rock, the Canyon de Chelly we know today.

Canyon De Chelly - Spider Rock - Christine Till Fine Art Photography
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